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| Anonymous User Info... | Hi - I'm looking for advice. When playing blues-based music, are there other scales beside the regular "blues scale" that sound good for taking solos? - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:48pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | octaves and key changes. oh wait that's metal...... - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:51pm | ||
| Jedi | No Ross, you are right. Should be able to play blues in 5 different positions. Learn those pentatonic scales and positions relative to the key played. - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:54pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | yeah my bitch was singing the blues last night/this morning in 5 differant positions. oh wait, that's metal.... - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:57pm | ||
| Anonymous | hahahahahaa good one Ross!!! - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 12:59pm | ||
| Jedi | My ol' lady has the Halford scream in a few positions as well. - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 1:01pm | ||
| Anonymous | ouch - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 1:02pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | my balls hurt. - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 1:04pm | ||
| Anonymous | Masturbating The War God - wants to help - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 1:07pm | ||
| ROSS B AY User Info... | don't need it. blue balls...get it? blue balls.....?get it? - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 1:08pm | ||
| Anonymous | Mr 'looking for advice'...find ome of those old Smithsonian-Folkways recordings. listen to Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, etc - then give a listen to people like Bob Wills, Left Frizzel, etc. early hillbilly/country, blues, etc. and you'll hear what i mean. don't feel bound by the pentatonic scale alone! some of the blues i mentioned found incredible use of minor key sigs to make their music speak to more people. and they get beautiful sounds. I guarantee that if you took up the fiddle/violin along with the guitar you'd find that you'd be very satisfied with the outcome - even in a few months time. And then you'd find your music and improvising able to transcend the idiom imposed by popular views of the blues. And even rock. - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 5:27pm | ||
| Anonymous | Country blues is going to be too advanced at first??? Knowing all the 2 note per string pent. scales will be more fun as your learning the stuff the last person posted. - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 5:35pm | ||
| Anonymous | no no! i didn't say that country blues was 'too advanced'! i was just saying if, you didn't feel inclined toward it, give it a chance! simple as that. and I think learning all the idioms are fun. the whole point is learn to move within the parameters of the instrument, so why would that be any less enjoyable? by all means learn the pent. positions!! no question. but be a bit of a musicologist about it and enjoy some other related elements too! right? - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 7:59pm | ||
| Anonymous | yes, sound advice! - Fri, 21 Mar 2003 9:37pm | ||
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